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Happy Mother's Day! For Now.....
Author: Lori Paterno
Find passionate help and support for caregivers, as well as inexpensive and easy home monitoring services for your aging mother, father or other loved one.

Statistically, it turns out that the “average” or “typical” unpaid family caregiver is a 46-year old woman caring for her own mother or her mother-in-law. The average amount of time spent is 20 hours per week. Even when we look at the statistics for professional, paid caregivers of seniors, a staggering 90 percent are female.

While many “daughters” are caring well for their mothers now, t...Read More

Posted On: Wednesday, May 02, 2012
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What is Dementia?
The term “dementia” can be considered an umbrella term. There are many, many kinds of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common type. So, when someone is talking about dementia, they are also talking about Alzheimer’s as well as all the rest of the different types.

5 Steps for a Smooth Transition to Senior Living: From Decision to Move-In
Deciding it’s time to have “the talk” with mom and dad is never an easy decision for adult parents. The entire process of moving an aging loved one to a senior living facility is stressful for everyone in the family, and children of elderly parents are often riddled with guilt. Each family’s situation is different, so the experience is also different for each individual. But by following a few simple tips and carefully planning each stage of a move, every family member can feel confident they’re making the right choices.

Chocolate Can Be Good For You
In August, 2011, medical researchers at the European Society of Cardiology announced that chocolate consumption may be able to reduce the risk of heart disease by one third. Many other studies done over the last decade have also reached the conclusion that something in chocolate can improve the cardiovascular system.

Best Holiday Gifts For Elderly Seniors
Gift giving for our elderly loved ones is often difficult. Looking back I think of the things that meant the most to mother. As a lot of the elderly who went through the depression, she was a person of little need or want of anything, therefore making it difficult for her children and grandchildren to come up the right gift. In their senior years, things they once desired no longer have the same importance.

12 Ideas for Senior Guests
By Julie Davis When you’re celebrating the holidays at your home with out of town guests, having comfort aids for seniors can be even more meaningful than lavish decorations. Room by room, these additions can create a safe retreat and a more enjoyable stay for older relatives and family friends.

5 Tips for Preventing Holiday Burnout for Family Caregivers:
We all know the feeling. Burnout. It comes from trying to be all things to all people. Holidays are a prime season for this. We are parents, workers, caregivers, friends, wives or husbands, in-laws, and maybe two or three other things on top of that. Work heats up because there is a big break coming for many companies at the end of December for the holidays and did I mention shopping?

Thanksgiving Tips for Caregivers
So, we are entering the Norman Rockwell time known simply as the “holiday season.” Abundance, celebrations, visiting relatives, gifts, food and high expectations abound. As a caregiver, you may be married (complete with a set of in-laws), caring for your own parents, and have children as well. This sort of places you in the center of it all!

Caregivers and their relatives disagree
University Park, Pa. -- Caregivers and their relatives who suffer from mild to moderate dementia often have different perceptions regarding the amount and quality of care given and received. A study by researchers at Penn State and the Benjamin Rose Institute on Aging examined a major source of those differences -- caregivers do not understand the things that are important to their relatives with dementia.

The Transition from Hospital to Home
Often adult children are thrust into the caregiving role following an unexpected health incident. A parent has a heart attack or falls and breaks a bone and suddenly needs your help like never before.

Annual Checkup on Priorities
Fall is almost upon us again. For me, this season has always borne with it a kind of mysterious enchantment; the panoply of earthy colors and the stillness in the air makes me something of a backseat philosopher.

5 Tips to Keep Your Sanity as a Caregiver
Of course you know that what you are doing is “worth it.” Of course caring for your loved one brings many rewards. But some days you just feeling like your loved one is driving you nuts! As somebody who cares for a loved one, you are part of a special group of people who c ontributes more than 17 billion hours of unpaid care each year --and that’s just for Alzheimer’s care!

Tips for Long Distance Eldercare
Baby Boomers are realizing that their parents are aging and in this mobile society, parents are often far away. If you are sensing that it might be time to pay closer attention to your parents’ needs, ask friends about their own experiences, talk with your parents and assess the following list.

5 Tips for Visiting with a Person who Has Alzheimer’s Disease or Dementia
Alzheimer’s disease is not just one thing. It can look very different from person to person, from one day to the next, or even at different points of the day. So, communicating and visiting with someone can be tricky.

5 Tips for Visiting with a Person with a Major Stroke-Induced Speech Disorder:
Aphasia is a common result of a left-hemisphere stroke, leaving a person unable to find words to accurately express thought. It can be mild to severe depending on the cause and extent of the damage to the brain. It can make communication quite challenging.

5 Tips for Visiting with a Person who is Dying or Critically Ill:
There is nothing more difficult than watching someone we love struggle with a devastating injury or illness. We want to offer support and be there for the person – but how do you do it gracefully or meaningfully? How do you control your own grief so as not to burden the person with your own discomfort?

Caregivers Not Taking Their Medications
Doctors and pharmacists encouraged to identify and work with caregivers to improve chronic disease management and medication adherence

Prescription Drug Abuse in Seniors Rising
Commonly when we think of “drug abuse” we imagine a young person smoking pot at a friend’s house or maybe seriously addicted heroin addicts on the street in some city. But, a recent study conducted by The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has shown that of women age 60 to 64, non-medical use of prescription drugs is on a sharp rise and that 4.3 million seniors have used an illegal drug in the past year.

Nurses Will Test Method to Identify Delirium in Dementia Patients
In the future, nurses may more accurately detect and alleviate symptoms of delirium in persons with dementia, thanks to a five-year, $2.7-million grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research.

Researchers: Family Caregiving Can Be Stress-Filled and Isolating
Family members who provide care to relatives with dementia, but do not have formal training, frequently experience overwhelming stress that sometimes leads to breakdowns or depression, according to Penn State and Benjamin Rose Institute researchers. Interventions to alleviate this stress are not always effective, leaving caregivers isolated to deal with their stresses.

For Diabetes Patients, Meal Planning is Key to Success
By Jill L. Quarry When people with diabetes are asked about the most difficult part of daily diabetes management, the answer is usually the same. People can check their blood sugar and give multiple insulin shots each day, but the greatest challenge is following a meal plan.

Focusing on Fiber
By Andrew Weil, M.D. What is the difference between soluble and insoluble fiber in terms of their effect on lowering cholesterol levels, especially triglycerides?

Banishing Balance Problems
By Andrew Weil, M.D. You often suggest exercises to improve balance among seniors. How common are balance problems among older people and what is the cause?

Home Safety Tips for Caregivers
As a family caregiver, it is important to safe-proof your home. Falls are the seventh leading cause of death in persons over the age of 65. There are a variety of reasons for falls, such as falls from ladders or scaffolding, falls from slipping, tumbling or tripping. It is important to know the hazards and then take the necessary precautions. It is important to constantly be alert.

Keeping Healthy When the Economy Is Not
By Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D. If you're looking for ways to save money on health care, you're not alone: One in three Americans say they've had problems paying their medical bills in the past year, a new study finds. And 18 percent of Americans said their medical bills were higher than $1,000.

Banishing Balance Problems
By Andrew Weil, M.D. You often suggest exercises to improve balance among seniors. How common are balance problems among older people and what is the cause?

Exercise, Eating to Enhance Memory
By Andrew Weil, M.D. What kind of nutrition or exercises help mitigate memory loss in aging adults? Is it true that the shrinking hippocampus is to blame?

Energizing the Elderly
By Andrew Weil, M.D. My father is almost 80 years old. He is getting weaker and weaker. Is there anything that can boost a little energy into an old body?

Do You Need These Tests?
By Andrew Weil, M.D. Can you tell me what tests we all should have as we get older? Which ones do you recommend?

Managing Diabetes with Supplements
By Andrew Weil, M.D. What supplements or herbs can help control diabetes? Are commercially available combinations of supplements effective for controlling blood sugar?

Bad Attitude Towards Aging
By Andrew Weil, M.D. I know that it’s best to be optimistic, especially in regard to aging, but that’s easier said than done. Can you learn optimism?

Best Workouts for the Brain?
By Andrew Weil, M.D. I've recently retired and all the leisure time disturbs me. I think I should seek out new challenges to keep my mind and memory nimble. Any suggestions?

Overcoming Insomnia With Blue Light
By Andrew Weil, M.D. I read an article about a blue light box that helps insomnia. You place the box on or next to your bed, watch the light and coordinate your breathing with it. Do you know about this? Can it really help?

Does Aromatherapy Work?
By Andrew Weil, M.D. What's the latest on aromatherapy? I recently heard that a new study showed that it doesn't have any effect on health.

My Aging Brain: What's Your Name, Again?
By Andrew Weil, M.D. I'm in my sixties, and I sometimes seem to temporarily forget the most ordinary things... names, phone numbers. My doctor says not to worry, but I'm concerned that my memory is failing, and of course, I worry about Alzheimer's. This also happens to some of my friends. What do you think?

Fitness Plan for Seniors
By Andrew Weil, M.D. What's the best exercise for older people? I've read that swimming and horseback riding are easy on the joints.

Focusing on Fiber
By Andrew Weil, M.D. What is the difference between soluble and insoluble fiber in terms of their effect on lowering cholesterol levels, especially triglycerides?

Food to Fight Alzheimer's
By Andrew Weil, M.D. A few years ago you wrote that the Mediterranean diet protected against Alzheimer's disease. Is there anything new on this, and does this way of eating also keep the mind sharp as you get older?

Elderly Caregiving: Choices, Challenges, and Resources for the Family
By many estimates, the group of American citizens 65 years and older will quadruple in the next three decades. With this expected population growth many of us in the upcoming years will be faced with primary or secondary caregiving for a loved one.

Communicating in Alzheimer's World
By Bob DeMarco It takes a lot of energy, learning, and patience to deal with the Alzheimer's disease. In order to begin the process of dealing with communication in a world fill with Alzheimer's you first need to make a simple important decision -- you want to decrease both your stress as caregiver, and the stress of the person suffering from Alzheimer's.

Taking Care of the Caregiver
Caregivers are at least as vulnerable to the long-term emotional and social impact of cancer as the survivors they cared for, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. "We've known caregivers carry a heavy burden that has been underreported and underappreciated," said Karen Hammelef, M.S., director of U-M Cancer Center Patient and Family Support Services, of the article published by University of Florida researchers. "This is the first study of its kind to look at long-term effects on caregivers."

Help Seniors Live Better, Longer: Prevent Brain Injury
Anyone who cares for or just cares about an older adult - a parent, grandparent, other family member, or even a close friend - will say they are concerned about keeping their loved one healthy and independent. But few will say they are worried about a traumatic brain injury (TBI) robbing their loved one of his or her independence. That's because many people simply are unaware that TBI is a serious health concern for older adults.

Scientists Find New, Inexpensive Way to Predict Alzheimer's Disease
Your brain's capacity for information is a reliable predictor of Alzheimer's disease and can be cheaply and easily tested, according to scientists. "We have developed a low-cost behavioral assessment that can clue someone in to Alzheimer's disease at its earliest stage," said Michael Wenger, associate professor of psychology at Penn State. "By examining (information) processing capacity, we can detect changes in the progression of mild cognitive impairment (MCI)."

Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension - Not Your Everyday High Blood Pressure
By David H. Silber Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rare blood vessel disorder of the lung in which the pressure in the pulmonary artery (the blood vessel that leads from the heart to the lungs) rises above normal levels. Left untreated, PAH may become life threatening and often produces severe symptoms like shortness of breath with minimal exertion, fatigue, chest pain, dizzy spells and fainting.

Triggers of Asthma - What are They?
The words 'triggers' or 'trigger factors' of asthma are used for the things which can cause an attack in someone who already has asthma. There is a huge variety of these triggers that have been reported by patients including dogs, cats, tobacco smoke, cold air, exercise, being upset, anxiety, and stress, taking aspirin, dust, fumes and even laughter.

Honeysuckle: An Ancient Healing Favorite
Honeysuckle is one of the oldest medicinal herbs in known history. Sometimes referred to as woodbine, European honeysuckle was once used widely to treat urinary complaints, asthma, and during childbirth. In traditional Chinese medicine, honeysuckle has been used medicinally for millenia.

Reversing the Effects of Heart Disease
For many people who are suffering from the effects of heart disease making some simple lifestyle changes is all it takes to reverse what can become a deadly condition if left untreated. The sad fact is that many who do suffer this disease fail to take the necessary steps to reverse it effects, which for the most part are relatively easy compared to the complications it can cause.

The Use Of An Electrocardiogram
An electrocardiogram, which is sometimes referred to simply as an ECG or an EKG, is a diagnostic tool that doctors and medical professionals use to measure a patients heart activity by paying attention to the electric current flowing in the heart. This is a procedure that is fairly routine and is performed all of the time. It generally takes five to ten minutes to do and it is both simple and safe to perform.

Low Cholesterol Diet Ideas Don't Have To Be Bland
People who return from their doctors with news they need to switch over to a low cholesterol diet to prevent heart disease and stroke often fear their culinary lives are over. The truth of the matter is, a low cholesterol diet can be alive with flavor.

Knowing Heart Attack Signs Can Save Your Life
Chest pain is the most common heart attack sign but it is important to understand that there are different kinds of chest pain. Many people with coronary artery disease suffer from angina pectoris which is chest pain or discomfort when the heart is not receiving enough blood. It normally occurs when the heart is working harder, such as during exercise or physical activity, but goes away when the activity is stopped.

What is the Best Food for High Blood Pressure?
Eating healthy is one of the best ways to treat high blood pressure. Blood pressure is the leading cause or heart disease, and can be measured up in the discussion of one thing: the systolic pressure over the diastolic pressure. Elevated blood pressure is defined as pressure that is 140/90 or higher.

Diabetes: Four Hidden Complications
According to the American Diabetes Association (ADA), more than 14 million Americans have been diagnosed with diabetes and another 6 million have the disease and have not been diagnosed. High blood sugar causes many underlying health issues if not managed.

Tips On How To Relieve Your Arthritis Pain
If a person experiences muscle pain and it continues for more than two to three days, there is a strong chance that he or she is suffering from arthritis. This chronic disease is a very common disorder, one that affects lots of people all around the world. The major symptom of arthritis is pain in the bone joints, but some arthritis sufferers may also feel pain in certain organs in the body.

Arthritis Home Remedy: Items In Your Kitchen You Can Use To Treat Arthritis
Arthritis attacks the joints of your body. As a result, they become swollen, stiff, and painful. To some extent, you may lose mobility. At times the pain can be unbearable. Your doctor usually prescribe pain medications to treat your arthritis.

About Pain Control For Cancer Victims
Pain control is usually something cancer patients have to practice when going through treatments. Pain can be generated from the cancer itself or it can be generated from an outside source, such as arthritis. Managing your pain can help you gain better control over your cancer diagnosis.

Cancer Patient Survivor's Nutrition Secrets
Cancer slowly seems to be eating away at our population. It is if everyone either knows someone who has passed from cancer or know someone who currently has cancer. The worst part about it is that cancer is very debilitating and those that do die from it pass slowly and often painfully. However, some others are able to beat cancer naturally without having to undergo painful radiation therapy.

How to Manage Skin Cancer Symptoms and Treatments
Millions of people are affected by skin cancer. Each year the number of skin cancer cases increases, highlighting the need for an effective way to manage both the symptoms and the treatment. Fortunately, there is an easy way to keep tabs on this disease.

Home Safety Tips for Caregivers
As a family caregiver, it is important to safe-proof your home. Falls are the seventh leading cause of death in persons over the age of 65. There are a variety of reasons for falls, such as falls from ladders or scaffolding, falls from slipping, tumbling or tripping. It is important to know the hazards and then take the necessary precautions. It is important to constantly be alert.

The Health of High Fiber Cereals
Some people really dislike eating high fiber cereal. It's probably because for a long time those cereals did not taste much better than chipped cardboard. In recent years the health industry has done many studies which have shown great benefits to eating whole grains and a high fiber diet.

Does Coffee Increase High Blood Pressure?
A recent Finnish study followed over 24,000 citizens with no prior history of hypertension or high blood pressure for thirteen years to attempt to find a causal link between high blood pressure and coffee. The ages of the participants were between 25 and 64 years old. Also required was that they had no history of hypertension drug use and no history of stroke or heart disease.

Top 10 Tips For Traveling By Air With An Elderly Parent
Have you traveled with your elderly parent or parents when they were frustrated, overtired, and stressed? Based on personal experiences with my own mother, I've put together ten ways to help achieve a safe and joyful air travel experience with your elderly parent.

Active Senior Living
If you are a senior you may be resigned to the fact that the busiest years of your life are over, but you can still do many things to ensure active senior living. Just because you're over 65, doesn't mean that life has to be boring or dull. There are so many ways to contribute to society, or just have fun. Active senior living means you make the choice on what you want, and then go get it.

Aging parents: Information You Need in Case of a Medical Emergency
Today, many adult daughters and sons find themselves called upon to help care for their aging parents. Often that care must be provided in an emergency. Could you provide the vital information doctors would need to care for them? If you're like most, you're not sure.

The Body, Mind and Spirit of the Caregiver Journey
When assuming the role of caregiver for a loved one with a chronic progressive disease we know we are in for a long journey. It would be helpful if we had all the answers and information we needed, right from the start - but it doesn't work that way. So what, in hindsight, did I learn about staying whole? I learned that I needed to constantly nourish my body-mind-spirit, my total self.

Keeping Your Business On Track While Supporting Your Parent
Do you or any of your friends have a parent with Alzheimer's? What I'm sharing in this article would have been helpful for me to read prior to experiencing the drastic shift in my mother's lifestyle last year. I never expected to have such an emotional roller coaster. It took some innovative strategies to keep my business on track.

Best Practices For Wheelchair Safety And Selection
There are many things to consider before you purchase a wheelchair. Regardless of whether you want a manual or powered chair, consider the following:

Comparing Diabetes Drugs
By Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D. We all like having choices. But sometimes, choices can be overwhelming. Marketing research shows that when faced with many choices, people can become frustrated or indecisive. Choices can be confusing in health care, too—especially when it comes to choosing a treatment for an illness like diabetes. But when it comes to your health, you don't want to put off making important decisions.

Keeping Healthy When the Economy Is Not
By Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D. If you're looking for ways to save money on health care, you're not alone: One in three Americans say they've had problems paying their medical bills in the past year, a new study finds. And 18 percent of Americans said their medical bills were higher than $1,000.

Talking About End-of-life Treatment Decisions
By Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D. It's natural to avoid thinking—never mind talking—about dying. As a result, most people do not make their wishes clear to their loved ones or their health care providers. This includes many people who are nearing the end of life.

Balancing Treatment Advice: Benefits, Risks, and Personal Choice
By Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D. How many times have you heard family members describe the terrific results they received from a certain medicine or treatment only to hear that a friend had very different results? It doesn't seem to make sense that one person had such good results and another person did not.

What to Ask Before Surgery and Preparing for ER visits
By Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D. If you are facing surgery, you are not alone. Every year, more than 15 million Americans have surgery. Popular TV shows would have you believe that surgery is always an immediate, life-or-death matter. In reality, most operations are not emergencies.

5-minute Respite for overwhelmed and stressed out caregivers
By Brenda Avadian, MA The number-one tip for stressed out and overwhelmed caregivers of brain- impaired adults (e.g., Alzheimer’s) is to take a five-minute respite.

Seniors Need Wisdom on Food Safety
An old adage states, "With age, comes wisdom." Hopefully that wisdom includes lots of good food safety information. Why? As we mature, our bodies change. Seniors become more at-risk for illness and, once ill, it can take them longer to recover.

Medicinal Values of Green Tea
By Lesley Lyon Green tea is believed to be in use as a medicine for at least 4000 years in China. It is also believed that green tea lowers the cholesterol levels by increasing the good cholesterol and decreasing the bad cholesterol. Green tea is rich in antioxidant called epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) .It destroys cancer cells and also inhibits the growth of cancer cells. Even though the French people consume diet rich in fat, they are less prone to heart attack than the Americans.

Are You Drowning in Caregiving?
by Alice Endy An area of concern that I get asked about the most is finding someone to give the caregiver a break. Most adult children fall into caregiving as a result of an incident that placed their elder in a crisis situation. After the dust settles and reality sets in often we realize that our lives have changed and this change is often not welcomed.

Elder Care Planning Guide
Following are some common questions when it comes to making important elder care decisions. Q. When do you need a care facility? A. A residential care facility should be taken into account when at least one of the following circumstances happens:

Diabetes Diets - Breaking Down Barriers And Focusing On Benefits
It is easy enough to follow any diet for a short time but when you are faced with following a life-long diabetes diet you will find that there are a number of barriers which will frustrate you in your efforts. The secret therefore to starting a diabetic diet is to understand just what those barriers are and to focus your attention on the benefits of your diabetes diet.

Relief For Arthritis Sufferers
By Margie Garrison Let’s take a look at the mental attitude part of this. Take a look at your attitude.... What has positive and negative affects on your attitude? You will make a great difference in the way you feel mentally and physically by enhancing on the positive and removing the negative influences in your life.

Special Gifts for the Elderly
By Jan Hayner Sometimes it isn't presents like clothes, home furnishings or appliances that mean the most to the elderly. At this time of their lives they are trying to get rid of those kinds of things. What is most important for them now are the gifts to help them live life to the fullest and be able to save money too.

How to Shift from Daddy's Girl to Dad's Caregiver
By Rosemary Lichtman, Ph.D. and Phyllis Goldberg, Ph.D.

Special Considerations And Tips For Senior Citizens Travel
By Lee Dobbins Cellular and extracellular changes of old age cause a change in physical appearance and a decline in function. Measurable changes in shape and body makeup occur. The body's ability to maintain homeostasis becomes increasingly diminished with cellular aging, and organ systems cannot function at full efficiency because of cellular and tissue deficits.

Are Alzheimer's Caregivers the Forgotten?
By Bob DeMarco One issue that really frustrates me is the treatment of Alzheimer's caregivers. Most Alzheimer's caregivers hear people tell them how wonderful they are for taking care of their loved one. As a caregiver, I learned to appreciate these compliments. They help, they really do.

The Sandwich Generation and Their Parents' Tarnished Golden Years
by Rosemary Lichtman, Ph. D. & Phyllis Goldberg, Ph.D. Parents of Baby Boomers look toward their sixties, seventies and eighties as golden years, with the chance to enjoy the fruits of their labors. But what happens when those days become tarnished gold? What if nothing you or your parents do can restore the shine you all were expecting? This is what faces the Sandwich Generation each year when their parents are diagnosed with Alzheimer's, senile dementia or stroke.

Avoid Burnout When Caregiving An Aging Parent
by Dana Sanders When providing care to aging or disabled parents, many caregivers ignore the most important person involved in the caregiving process. "Who?" - you may ask? The answer might surprise you: The Caregiver.

Advice for Older Adults on Staying Safe in Hot Weather
Hyperthermia is the name given to a variety of heat-related illnesses that can include heat stroke, heat fatigue, heat syncope (sudden dizziness after exercising in the heat), heat cramps and heat exhaustion. Older adults are particularly at risk for developing heat-related illness because the ability to adequately respond to summer heat can become less efficient with age. The National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has some advice for helping older people avoid heat problems during the summer months.

Resolve to be Regular: New Years Tips to Get your Digestive System 'Back on Tract'
(ARA) - If you haven't been kind to your body over the holidays, you'll definitely feel it by the start of the new year. Activities like jetting cross-country to see friends and family, overdoing it on eggnog, and generally being a couch potato can cause digestive discomfort. If you wake up on January 1st feeling bloated, constipated, or crampy, rest assured you are not alone.

New Medical Therapies Working with Traditional Medicine
(ARA) - Healing is only part of the plan for anyone who's been diagnosed with an illness or injury. You want to recover, but you also want to feel better while healing - as quickly as possible. That's why many specialists are now turning to massage therapy to help patients feel better faster.

Aging in Place Can Be Done with Style and Grace
(ARA) - Aging in place - updating one's home to accommodate changing needs and abilities as one ages - doesn't have to mean sacrificing a home's style and decor. From attractive lighting designed to work well for aging eyes to barrier-free shower stalls that compete in beauty and practicality with what you might find in a luxury community for those 55 and older, plenty of home modifications now make it possible to age in place gracefully and stylishly.

Pain Meds Can Cause Serious Side Effects
(ARA) - Karen Woolery has struggled with arthritis in her hands for the past 12 years, making her job as director of a day care physically difficult. The arthritis made even the simplest movements painful. To relieve the pain, she often took medications like ibuprofen, never realizing they could potentially cause her harm. Her doctors soon discovered Karen had a big problem - she had ulcers.

Case Western Study Finds Caregivers of Spouses Might Benefit from Support Groups
by Bob DeMarco Adams suggested that caregivers might benefit from support groups that "normalize" the emotions that surface while watching the dementia of their loved ones worsen. They can also be taught caregiving and decision making skills and given "permission" to increase pleasurable activities and engage in self-care.

Planning for Healthy Aging
(ARA) - In just two short years, the first wave of baby boomers will turn 65. For some, this milestone birthday may signal retirement; for others it may not. For all boomers, it should mean an increased focus on health care. Baby boomers can take steps now to help ensure many more healthy years.

Planning for Healthy Aging
(ARA) - In just two short years, the first wave of baby boomers will turn 65. For some, this milestone birthday may signal retirement; for others it may not. For all boomers, it should mean an increased focus on health care. Baby boomers can take steps now to help ensure many more healthy years.

Hypothermia: A Cold Weather Risk for Older People
Almost everyone knows about winter dangers such as broken bones from falls on icy steps, sidewalks or streets. But cold weather also can cause an important, less obvious danger that can affect older people. Older adults are especially vulnerable to hypothermia, which can be deadly if not treated quickly. The National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has some advice to help older people avoid hypothermia.

Avoid the 'Senior Sickness Snowball Effect' with a strong immune system
(ARA) - An emerging health trend where a relatively simple illness leads to a number of physical and lifestyle changes is impacting seniors around the country, say immune system researchers from Embria Health Sciences, co-founders of the Nourish America Senior Health Project. They've dubbed this trend the Senior Sickness Snowball Effect, which impacts the overall quality of a person's daily life and follows this recurring cycle:

Avoid the 'Senior Sickness Snowball Effect' with a strong immune system

 (ARA) - An emerging health trend where a relatively simple illness leads to a number of physical and lifestyle changes is impacting seniors around the country, say immune system researchers from Embria Health Sciences, co-founders of the Nourish America Senior Health Project. They've dubbed this trend the Senior Sickness Snowball Effect, which impacts the overall quality of a person's daily life and follows this recurring cycle:



Avoid the 'Senior Sickness Snowball Effect' with a strong immune system

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Getting Help for a Heart Attack
If you have heart disease, you are at high risk for having a heart attack. But planning ahead so you know what to do if heart attack signs occur will help you get treatment fast—when it can save heart muscle and even your life.

Getting Help for a Heart Attack
If you have heart disease, you are at high risk for having a heart attack. But planning ahead so you know what to do if heart attack signs occur will help you get treatment fast—when it can save heart muscle and even your life .

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